Ostrog (Russian: острог, IPA: [ɐˈstrok]) is a Russian term for a small fort, typically wooden and often non-permanently staffed. Ostrogs were encircled...

in Ukraine Ostrog (fortress), a Russian term for a small fortress This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Ostrog. If an internal...

Polovtsian burial mound Chasovoy pole, 17th century Tower from the Sumskoy Ostrog fortress, 17th century Memorial pole from Shaydorovo village, 19th century Mead...

Pitt Block House in Point State Park in Pittsburgh Martello tower Ostrog (fortress) Sangar (fortification) Spiteri, Stephen C. (2010). "Illustrated Glossary...

area. The Russian settlement of Yakutsk was founded in 1632 as an ostrog (fortress) by Pyotr Beketov. In 1639, it became the center of the Voivode of...

population. Permanent settlement began with the construction of an ostrog (fortress) in 1631 at the junction of the Oka and Angara rivers. Several wooden...

Slavic books, notably the Ostrog Bible, were printed there. The Hypatian Codex first mentions Ostroh in 1100, as a fortress of the Volhynian princes....

ostrog (fortress) of Ilimsk, which consists of the original Spasskaya Tower and the Church of Our Lady of Kazan transported from the flooded ostrog in...

to expand south of Moscow. In 1586, three hundred Russians built an Ostrog (fortress) at Tyumen, and in 1587, they built another fort at Tobolsk. In 1588...

Census); 20,878 (1989 Soviet census). Founded in 1645, it was first an ostrog (fortress) on the Belgorod Line and named after the Usman River.[citation needed]...

Ostogozhsk (little fortress) bringing along some 2,000 resettlers from Chernigov and Nezhin Regiments around an ostrog (fortress) of the Belgorod Defensive...

the ostrog (fortress) of Yeniseisk, Krasnoyarsk and Kansk with adjacent lands were assigned to the Tomsk razryad. In 1676, the Yeniseisk ostrog received...

Cossack commander and in 1641 Beketov returned to Enisei Ostrog as the head of the fortress. In 1652 he launched the second tax-collecting voyage to Buryatia...

Komeutyuyam Range are in the district. In 1714, Russians built the ostrog (fortress) of Olyutorsk to control the coast and land route from Kamchatka to...

is a former Ruthenian-Lithuanian castle and a later three-part Polish fortress located in the historic city of Kamianets-Podilskyi, Ukraine, in the historic...

sources nearby. It was first founded by the Cossacks in 1652 as the ostrog (fortress) of Amga-Sloboda (Амга-Слобода).[citation needed] The first church...

the Bolshoy Anyuy River became the main thoroughfare linking the new ostrog (fortress) with the fort at Nizhnekolymsk, with the region being the first place...

592 (2002 Census); 109,280 (1989 Soviet census); 53,000 (1977). An ostrog (fortress) was built on the present site of the town in the 17th century;[citation...

Kodak fortress (Ukrainian: Кодак; Polish: Kudak) was a fort built in 1635 by the order of Władysław IV Vasa, ruler of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth...

in 1618 by men from Tomsk as a Cossack ostrog (fort) on the Tom River, it was initially called Kuznetsky ostrog (Кузне́цкий острог). It became the seat...

from Anadyrsky Liman. Due to its proximity to the former Anadyrsk ostrog (fortress), the area was famous for trade fairs between Russians and Chukchi...

Wooden fortresses were built quickly: in 1638 in Mtsensk fortress walls of Bolshoi Ostrog and Pletny Gorod with a total length of about 3 kilometres...

In the 17th century, Semyon Dezhnyov and his Cossacks founded the ostrog (fortress) of Anadyrsk and began to explore Chukotka. One expedition, led by...

the Silver Valley (Polish: Przełęcz Srebrna). The fort spans three hills: Ostróg (627 meters above sea level), Warowna Góra (686m), and Wielki Chochoł (740m)...

Yenisey River, near the mouth of the Lower Tunguska, and in 1619 Yeniseysky ostrog was founded on the mid-Yenisey at the mouth of the Upper Tunguska. In 1620...

an exact copy of another tower of the former Ilimsk ostrog and the southern wall of the fortress were built at the Taltsy site next to the buildings moved...

Підгорецький замок; Polish: zamek w Podhorcach) is a residential castle-fortress located in the village of Pidhirtsi in Lviv Oblast (province) western Ukraine...

Surviving Dubno Klewań Łuck Ołyka Ostróg Sławuta Starokonstantynów Zasław Ruined Korec Novomalin Zwiahel...

Letychiv Fortress is a complex of limestone walls built in 1598 by Jan Potocki to defend Podolia from the regular raids of the Crimean Tatars. The north-western...

Svistunova, the 16th-century Oryol fortress had three lines of fortifications and consisted of a city, an ostrog and a posad surrounded by gaps. The...